History
This week in history: January 16-21
January 16, 2012
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
This week in history: January 9 - January 15
January 9, 2012
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
This week in history: January 2-8
January 3, 2012
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
A blow against the Post-Soviet School of Historical Falsification
By Wolfgang Weber, December 31, 2011
The letter of 14 historians to the Suhrkamp publishing house in Germany calling on it to abandon publication of Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky has opened the door for an honest and thorough examination of the role of Trotsky and the rise and fall of Soviet power.
This week in history: December 25-January 1
December 27, 2011
“This Week in History” provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
This week in history: December 19-25
December 19, 2011
“This Week in History” provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
This week in history: December 12-18
December 12, 2011
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
This week in history: December 5-11
December 5, 2011
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
“Robert Service has written a diatribe, not a scientific polemic!”
A conversation with Professor Hermann Weber
November 28, 2011
Professor Hermann Weber spoke to the World Socialist Web Site on the reasons for his opposition to the publication by Suhrkamp Verlag of a German translation of Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky.
This week in history: November 28-December 5
November 28, 2011
This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.
Letter from historians to German publisher Suhrkamp on Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky
November 23, 2011
Below is the text of a letter sent in July by noted European historians to the German publishing house Suhrkamp opposing its planned publication of Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky.
European historians oppose publication by Suhrkamp of Robert Service’s Trotsky biography
By Wolfgang Weber, November 23, 2011
Fourteen prominent historians, political scientists and publicists from Germany and Austria have sent a letter to the German publishing house Suhrkamp opposing the publication of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky. The letter cites “a host of factual errors,” the “repugnant connotations” of the
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